Shaping, Making, and Personal Cultivation
BY SARAH DIONNE WOODS-LADUE Editorial Note: Each August for the past six years, I’ve asked dance artists at different points in their careers what “making it”…
The Many Meanings of ‘Professional’
CHRISTIAN BURNS – a dancer, teacher and choreographer in the San Francisco Bay Area and founder of burnsWORK – muses on what professionalism means, the permutability…
The Pursuit Is the Thing
Editorial Note: Each August for the past five years, I’ve asked dance artists at different points in their careers what “making it” means to them. Please join…
Alexandra: Riding Momentum
Each summer for the past five years, I have asked a group of young dancers where they are with dance. I leave the question open-ended in…
A New Understanding of Challenges
BY SHANNON LEYPOLDT I felt I would never be taken seriously as a dancer until it was the only thing I did. I freelanced in San…